Grue, Norway

Grue is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Solør. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kirkenær (population: 1200).

Grue kommune
Municipality
Coat of arms
Innlandet within
Norway
Grue within Innlandet
Coordinates: 60°27′2″N 12°12′20″E
CountryNorway
CountyInnlandet
DistrictSolør
Administrative centreKirkenær
Government
 • Mayor (2019)Rune Grenberg[1] (Ap)
Area
 • Total837 km2 (323 sq mi)
 • Land777 km2 (300 sq mi)
Area rank131 in Norway
Population
 (2004)
 • Total5,312
 • Rank183 in Norway
 • Density7/km2 (20/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years)
−7.0%
Demonym(s)Grusokning[2]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-3417
Official language formBokmål[3]
Websitewww.grue.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

The municipality of Grue was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The area of Brandval was separated from the municipality of Grue in 1867 to become a municipality of its own.

General information

Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Grue farm (Old Norse: Grof(a)), since the first church was built there. The name is identical with the word grof(a) which means "depression" or "hollow".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. It was granted on 30 October 1992 and designed by Harald Hallstensen. The arms are described as "left tilted dividing by silver and green, the dividing line is a curved wolf tooth pattern. The flame-like line represents the clearance of farms in the woods by the use of fire and is also a remembrance of the gruesome church fire of 1822. The colors symbolize the forests and the Glomma river.[4]

Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Grue by country of origin in 2017[5]
Ancestry Number
Sweden50
Poland32
Lithuania29
Iraq28
Croatia28
Eritrea25
Bosnia-Herzegovina23

Geography

Grue is situated around the Glomma river and the geography is dominated largely by forests and some agricultural areas around Glomma. Grue is located in the southeast part of Hedmark county. It is bordered on the south by the municipality of Kongsvinger, on the north by the municipality of Åsnes, and on the west by Nord-Odal. To the east it borders Sweden.

Grue was the early center for the Finnish migration which today populates the Finnskogen, a belt about 32 kilometres (20 mi) wide and running continuously along the frontier in the districts of Brandval, Grue, Hof, Åsnes, and Våler. Their first population center in Norway was located around the lake of Røgden.

The river Løvhaugsåa runs through the area.

Notable people
Åsta Holt, 1945

References
  1. "(+) Tungt kjede for ny ordfører, men stolen er god å sitte i". www.ostlendingen.no (in Norwegian). 2019-10-08. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  2. "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  3. "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  4. "Om Grues kommunevåpen" (in Norwegian). Grue Kommune. Archived from the original on 2009-03-22. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
  5. "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
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